Guild Wars 2

I agree, the site is very good – especially if you want to kit out your wardrobe or your dye collection. I don’t see anything harmful with it.

Will try to be as detailed as possible without activating berserker. Long post incoming.

The Bad Things

• The time between the events are too long, we are after all being invaded by a Elder Dragon and it’s like “ooh the mighty forces of Tyria have defeated my forces! I will now DRINK TEA FOR HALF AN HOUR! Then i will invade again!”.

• The rewards for doing this is way too punishing, three hours of wait and tagging and we get rewarded with 45 blossoms at most, some people get none (imagine the lowbies, how can they even get time to tag mobs or dash out the damage needed to be registered that they have dpsed a mob to get rewarded).

• “Guild Wars 2 reward the player to play with others” Now that is not working here, stick to the zerg and aim to reach 20 stacks in 30 minutes? It’s not doable imo, the way to do this event is to go full rouge, avoid commanders, tag mobs then leave and let others finish the event. It’s not fun, i don’t like it – but what are my/others options if they want the 15 blossoms.

The Good Thing

• The rewards from the vendor is okay, its giving the players to buy the skins for gold instead of gems, its cheaper and i find it better – even for a new player.

How I Would Adress Thease Issues

The event has to be EPIC, this is another attack by the Jungle Dragon on Tyria, we have seen what it has done in it’s first attack on Tyria with it’s vines and now we get to keep him at bay to not let him destroy more of our world, our heritige, our homes.

I would keep that thought in my mind and keep in mind that it has to breath, it has to live, it has to feel like a invasion, it HAS to feel that we are being under attack by a Elder Dragon.

First thing that i would do is to reduce the event time from 30 min to 20 min, and instead of having individual stacks like we got now, i would add a “Map Stack” this would calculate all events we finish during that 20 minutes. Rewards would be equal to all, teamwork would be rewarded once again.

Rewards would be the following

10 events completed by map = 10 blossoms
20 events completed by map = 15 blossoms
30 events completed by map = 20 blossoms
40 events completed by map = 25 blossoms
50 events completed by map = 35 blossoms

Usually you average 35-40 events on 30 minutes. This would add a bit of a challenge, cooperation between commanders and the “taggers” atm would have to finish the random events they port to just to contribute

Easy way for this would be that the roamers go for shield events (they got fixed locations when they spawn so they spawn at the same spot everytime) the commanders with zergs head to catapults and bombs. This way it would create a good flow on events and all would be rewarded equally, now the argument might be “i do more work and being rewarded with the same amount as the one that did one event” well that happens, leechers are everywhere – who had most fun in the end is what matters.

Secondly is that i would remove the break times between the three events. As soon the 20 minutes are done in Brisban it should start RIGHT AWAY in Kessex for 20 minutes, let them try to overwhelm us – let us rally on the run on who is running where. Once Kessex is done, it starts in Diessa right away too for 20 minutes.

Once all these is done, what i would have added is that i would add that Modrem Guard that are in the beta (he has to have some purpose in Heart of Thorns right? Let us get familiar with him! He has plently of uses before we meet him, considering that HoT is future, and adding him in the present atm would be okay, we dont kill him now – we just defeat him then he can just escape by hugging a vine that pulls him down in the earth as a retreat or something… something..) I will add a picture of him to this post. Anyway, HE would spawn in any of the three maps we just did events in, let him be like a minor boss to defeat, like a world boss. By defeating him i suggest this as rewards

• A big event chest as we usually get, contains random stuff like blues, greens, rares (almost like vinewrath got atm)
• 10-15 blossoms
• As for the event reward (the bronze, silver, gold) we get exp, karma, silver like normal events, this will feel a bit more rewarding for new players too.

After this has happend, we did events, the guard is drawn back to the planning board – Tyria is safe for another 90 minutes. Then it happens again.

I would also let the event run for 1-2 weeks instead of 4 days. This would let people have time to get the things they wanted and not to let them gamble with their personal health by farming 24/7 to get the rewards.

This would “de-reward” the items a bit, but what gives? As more content comes, new items come, people will replace the armor they get here with “cooler” things, new people come and come back and value will rise of the items again. In the end, all are the winners.

As adressing the disconnecting people are having i cant say much on that, to be honest – this happens in spvp, world bosses and you get nothing by dcing there and logging back in most of the cases, so i think nothing can be done on that front. If there was something to be done there, i guess we would have seen it in-game already for spvp and world bosses

This is just my opinion, many might not agree with me on this, but i think this would make this event better.

I personally hate Traeharne, i can’t stand him. My ultimate dream would be to be the person to finish him off – for good.

It’s where the only copy of the movie “The Interview” is being kept, forever.

I think there won’t be a case, we still got waterfields and blasts and such.

Why would Arena Net design a spec that will be REQUIRED in raids if Colin Johanson said more or less that “we dont want that in Guild Wars 2” earlier this year at PAX. I will quote EXACTLY what he said.

“Raids, are where all the great things about the Guild Wars 2 combat system comes together. Weapon swap, dodge rolling, player positioning, skill combos and our fluid system of control, support and damage.

That relies on players keeping themselves alive aswell as having to work with their party, aswell as having control on enemies all at the same time for you to overcome these great challenges. NO MORE you are reliant on two people in your party YOUR HEALERS KEEPING EVERYONE ALIVE, EVERYONE has to work together to overcome these challenges.

So lets talk a little bit about about things in Guild Wars 2 do differently, there is NO WAITING TO HAVE FUN, there is no attunement process in Guild Wars 2 raiding. You don’t need to grind through an endless attunement for you are even allowed to walk into our raids, we think raiding should be all about having fun and playing a raid!

So you walk to the door – you walk in and you are instantly facing off against this content. You might get your face smashed in a whole bunch of times but that’t okay thats what this is all about, you are going to refine your build, refine your strategy – work together and eventually overcome these challenges and get to the end of our raids for legendary rewards."

(Just saying that he wont go into more about the “legendary rewards” and continues)

“So part of waiting to have fun another component that WE WANT TO GET RID off is traditionally when you think of raiding is all about building the exact perfect party compositions so you can overcome the challenges. AND THAT MEANS OFTEN TIMES YOU END UP SITTING AROUND WITING 30 MINUTES FOR YOUR HEALER TO GET ONLINE OR 45 MINUTES FOR THE EXACT RIGHT TANK TO GET ONLINE.

And that means potentially if you love playing a ranger that night you don’t get to play a ranger, you are stuck being the monk for the evening because someone could not make it because their kid got sick. WELL THAT IS NOT WHAT GUILD WARS 2 SHOULD BE ABOUT, we built our combat system, we built our fluid roles and we built our trait system so that every profession has the ability to control, do damage and support.

And how you defeat encounters in Guild Wars 2 should be based on you playing the professions that you love, making a build that works with the builds that everyone else in your party has built together and try to overcome the challenges playing the professions and the abilities that you love to defeat this content."

He later continues about gear progression and such but thats off topic.

So no trinity is confirmed YET. (and i think there will never be a trinity system in Guild Wars 2 and that I FULLY APPROVE, people who want trinity can play another MMO that got trinity, gw2 is not the game for that player)

Druid is just a healing spec for Rangers just like water is for Elementalists.

Now this may require us players to swap from zerker to PvT or something to survive, being sharp on getting waterfields delivered and such to heal up – THIS IS NOTHING NEW it happens from time to time in high level fractals for example.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veJMHxgUGxM

That Trahearne survives.

I play as an asura, I run around in a circle shouting “vrooooom”. It’s brilliant, if it’s poorly made or anything I don’t care about, better then nothing and it will only last a day

After playing around a bit on druid i feel the following

• The damage on staff is way too low, and only three skills that can do damage, i can nearly not even do a full quick DPS rotation on staff before the 11111111 spam begins – and then i’m still rendered useless. This has to be buffed

• Solar Beam – It is an AoE but the way it’s aoeing is by piercing other mobs as in having mobs in a line and pick the one in the far back. I find this kinda sad to be honest, some fights can be very annoying if someone goes full “rouge” and starts repositioning and then mobs are running all over the place. *make this bounce like elementalist staff air 1 or like a normal aoe skill like elementalist staff fire 1 to mention a few imo.

This is a major problem already for rangers, their lack of having a decent aoe dps and focused on single target damage mainly, even with piercing arrows a ranger will not be effective aoe wise – so why would this one be if it is designed the same way?

• Glyphs – I say they need a buff. increase the radius on them to 600 at least, and buff the damage on those that have damage.

• Pets are very nice, at least they do decent damage now and they are now usefull. Hence the Smokescale is nearly more use in a dungeon then the druid itself overall.

I know this spec is focusing on healing, but every now and then damage is the best defence – There for i suggest moar direct dps – NOT condition damage – raw damage.

Spam poison the druid and it will be nothing without proper numbers.

Thing is here.. If I buy Witcher 3 and get 1st and 2nd witcher games for free, I would not mind too. If I was new to guild wars 2 and are going to buy it now and get the core game and the expansion for 45 euros I would not mind too since that’s is a very fair deal!

But for that same 45 euros as a veteran player I only get the expansion. No extra serial code for the core game to give to a friend, just paying the same for less.

I think that’s one of the issues, we got to pay for something that we partly do not get, that’s why people want an expansion upgrade only, for the cheaper price then the core game and expansion together.

This is how it is now

New comers – 45 euros = core game and expansion
Veterans – 45 euros = expansion

If we got two serial codes then I would not really bother, or a 10 euros cheaper. Or a character slot instead
instead.

They have said this and that there won’t be another upgrade option then what it is right now.

But I would not game minded to get two serials, one to give to a friend and one for the expansion.

I guess we can all hope that this sale ends with a BOOM and we get most of the desired items that has been talked about on the forums.

Instead of a POOF – Instant Repair Canister 10% off, Revive Orb 50% off.

I would not be surprised if we get the “poof” but i really want them to drop the BOMB on last sale day, may it be a 24 hours time on them i dont mind. As long we get them.

I always keep quiet in spvp. Some people can be so easily provoked and think they designed the maps to be played one way, can be enough if u say “i cap far then i run mid and help” and biggest flame war can start and u end up being blocked for no particular reasons.

Best way to pvp = enjoy it, dont take it too serious.

AysonCurrax.3254:

Seems like it wasnt so…puts on sunglasses…efficient, after all.

Jongi.7612:

Gray.9041:

Jongi.7612:

Gray.9041:

the loss of the ‘free’ core game when you upgrade is a little unfair, but mostly it’s the fact that there’s so much Anet could’ve done to prevent this, even just little things, and they didn’t.

it’s not so much that we’re owed something, it’s more that the Anet want to keep customers, it’s better to treat them with at least a little respect, and it feels like they’re not right now.

No, this is the argument given “ive been playing since launch i should get something since new players are getting the core game for free”. That is entitlement and they dont owe you anything. You have gotten plenty for just logging in for the past 3 years.

Some of the Vets havent shown a shred of respect or even thought about what they are saying, they just want free stuff because im a vet.

Im on the side that you should never tell someone to leave if they dont like it because its bad for any type of business, but in this case, if you dont like that your not getting free stuff dont let the door hit you on the way out. The community would be SO much better.

I’m not asking for free stuff ‘cos I’m a vet.

I just want what everyone else is getting.

You are, your getting the expansion. You already have the core game.

I think you dont understand what is saying here.

A newcomer pays 45 euros for the standard edition, for free they get the core game that is included in that package.

A veteran pays also 45 euros and only get the expansion for the same amount of price but for less and not the core game.

That is the thing, no matter if you have 1-20 accounts, the core game is included in that package and right now we are not getting what we pay for because of that.

Currently it is if me and my friend would enter a fast food restaurant and i have a bottle of water with me from our walk.
We pick the same kind of dish and that includes a soda for free together with the food and is costing us totally 15 euros each.

But in this case it’s like the cashier tells me that i wont get the soda because i got a bottle of water with me. But i still got to pay the full price, i wont get a discount for it since they leave out something that SAYS is in the menu and they wont give me a soda since i got a bottle of water already

Hopefully this helps.

Thats the irony in this event for us selfless potion farmers..

We go to a event, we tag – we leave – we dont res people – we just wp and keep tagging to reach our 20 stacks for 15 blossoms..

It’s soon over hopefully..

Maybe Tequatl tried out the first person camera and flew wrong way due to not turning off camera shakes. He will be back soon.

Would also like to know this

In short, he is useless. I hope he turns in HoT so i can finally kill him… ONE DAY!

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Naaaa. You’re all wrong.

It’s Batman.

Illuminati confirmed.

I would love to see the Crown Pavilion to be opened again, and more bosses would be even better too. Boss Blitz was good farm imo.

But i will be surprised if they open it this year, think they are too busy with HoT and even after its release i think its a no go due to lack of time..

But we can always hope!

Add a Husk Minipet, its usefull.

My conclusion is that we will wait 2h 30min more untill event goes live.

Caithe is Morgan Freeman, thats the secret. No one saw this coming.

MirrorOfNature.4279:

Many, many players, including me, enjoy exactly this more then anything else in this game, because it means you’ll never have to grind mindlessly, just to be competitive against other players, or to be able to join fractals, dungeons, or the new raids, whenever you feel the need to do so. If you need to be away from the game for a long time, you don’t go back with the dread feeling that you are miles away from the rest of the people in the game, and you need to grind your kitten off, just to be an competitive player again. Sorry, mate, I know many don’t like to hear this, but it sure sounds this game isnt made for you. Maybe you should take a look at the more traditional MMOs out there. As I said, enough players from the gw2 comunity like the way things are made in this direction, and its not likely Anet will change it, until this method is succesful and bring more new players every day.

Also the skills are anything, but identical to each other. Please, don’t try to reinforce your point with nonsense, because it accomplishes nothing more then discrediting your post.

This +100

/So sick of the endless gear treadmill in other mmos so that is why i love guild wars 2 + enough letters to post this

Imo there should be a week cooldown on transfer and it should cost gems to transfer. By doing so they have to spend their gems/gold to get on other servers, then they are stuck there for a week.

If there will be a guesting option that were discussed in beta that can be used to visit other servers even do PvE dungeons with em, only thing you can’t do while guesting is WvW.

The devs are probably working on that Husk Minipet that i requested a month ago here!

Windu The Forbidden One.6045:

phys.7689:

If i buy street fighter IV and they say street fighter 3 free with purchase.

then i dont want them to take away the street fighter 3 just because i already bought it 3 years ago.

a free copy of gw2 core has value, i can give it away, i can use it as a mule account, i can get more daily limited resources. There is no logical reason, if it is really free with purchase, that older players do not get a code.

but they dont, because the package treats customers differently but charges them the same thing.

So its really not veteran entitlement, its veterans not wanting to be screwed just because they are veterans

^This guy right here.

I second THIS + upvote.

This is exactly how i feel.

It’s very hard to make MMO or any game chat clean. It’s like trying to make a society clean in the same way – it is impossible.

Best thing to do is just to report that particular person and they should dealt with it. Block them too, or just do like me, have your combat/guild chat open all the time if some extremely pointless/offending discussion is happening on local chat.

In a MMO community, it is very easy to turn your face and look the other way.

Killing Trahaerne would be the best thing since SAB

I’m farming for the Toxic Gloves. I dont mind it, if i did not get 0 rewards no matter how hard i push myself over 20-30 stacks during the event.

That, i do mind.

There will always be people who will be toxic, may it be f2ps or elitist veterans.

I’ve been with a bunch of f2p people lately while doing story dungeons and a couple of explorables. But they are not being toxic in anyway, some need to get a waypoint linked to them so they can enter the dungeon, some will just stand there in the red circles and dodge too late and die over and over etc etc – It’s fine, we all been there at some point but those i’ve met are not being toxic (yet).

Now yesterday i was with a veteran who was just being toxic against the f2p players, telling them that they were being slow and they should stop kittening sleep and shape up, spam pinging on mini map and just being elitist wanna be in general.

Some will joke and some will be real, best way to do is just to let it be and move on – nicer groups out there (and worse).

And ofc since we get raids in expansion we are going to see quite a decent amount of toxic elitist try to “lead” the raid without patience.

So we are closing in on it, less then a month now before Toxic Wars 2: Salt of Thorns will be real for a period of time.